Scientific American, Vol. 44, No. 13 (1881)
This is a weekly American periodical from 1881, the thirteenth number of volume 44 of Scientific American, a technical magazine for inventors, engineers and general readers. The pictures are black-and-white engravings of machinery, motors and railway apparatus, drawn with clean outlines, numbered figure labels and hatched shading. A designer might take from them the crisp, diagrammatic style of nineteenth-century technical illustration, with its labelled cutaway views and dense mechanical linework.
